Handbook of Affective Sciences

PART 1: NEUROSCIENCE; 1. Introduction: Neuroscience; 2. Parsing the subcomponents of emotion and disorders of emotion: perspectives from affective neuroscience; 3. Comparing the emotional brains of humans and other animals; 4. Emotional learning circuits in animals and humans; 5. The contributions of the lesion method to the functional neuroanatomy of emotion; 6. Emotion and memory: Central and peripheral contributions; 7. Functional neuroimaging of depression: A role for medial prefrontal cortex; PART 2: AUTONOMIC PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; 8. Introduction: Autonomic Psychophysiology; 9. The autonomic nervous system and its co-ordination by the brain; 10. Motivational organization of emotions: autonomic changes, cortical responses, and reflex modulation; 11. Autonomic specificity and emotion; 12. Methodological considerations in the psychophysiological study of emotion; 13. On the autonomaticity of autonomic responses in emotion: An evolutionary perspective; 14. Emotional modulation of selective attention: behavioural and psychophysiological measures; PART 3: GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENT; 15. Introduction: Genetics and Development; 16. Genetics of emotional development; 17. Behavioural inhibition as a temperamental category; 18. Emotional development in childhood: a social relationship perspective; 19. Emotional development during infancy; 20. Dynamic development of component systems of emotions: Pride, shame and guilt in China and the United States; PART 4: EXPRESSION OF EMOTION; 21. Introduction: Expression of Emotion; 22. Facial expression of emotion; 23. Vocal expression of emotion; 24. Expression of emotion in nonhuman animals; 25. Creative expression and communication of emotions in the visual and narrative arts; 26. Emotional expression in music; 27. Language and emotion; PART 5: COGNITIVE COMPONENTS OF EMOTION; 28. Introduction: Cognitive Components of Emotion; 29. Appraisal processes in emotion; 30. Affective influences on attitudes and judgements; 31. The role of affect in decision making; 32. Remembering emotional events: a social-cognitive neuroscience approach; 33. Information processing approaches to emotion; PART 6: PERSONALITY; 34. Introduction: Personality; 35. Information processing approaches to individual differences in emotional reactivity; 36. Individual differences in emotional reactions and coping; 37. Emotion and life-span personality development; PART 7: EMOTION AND SOCIAL PROCESSES; 38. Introduction: Emotion and Social Processes; 39. Emotional factors in attitudes and persuasion; 40. The self and emotion: The role of self-reflection in the generation and regulation of affective experience; 41. Affect and prosocial responding; 42. Affect, aggression and antisocial behaviour; 43. Two types of relationship closeness and their influence on peoples emotional lives; PART 8: EVOLUTIONARY AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON AFFECT; 44. Introduction: Evolutionary and Cultural Perspectives on Affect; 45. The moral emotions; 46. Emotions as dynamic cultural phenomena; 47. Adaptive rationality and the moral emotions; PART 9: EMOTION AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; 48. Introduction: Emotion and Psychopathology; 49. Response modulation and emotion processing: Implications for psychopathy and other dysregulatory psychopathology; 50. Physiological and pharmacological induction of affect; 51. Neuroimaging and the neurobiology of anxiety disorders; 52. Cognitive Biases in emotional disorders: information processing and social-cognitive perspectives; 53. The neurobiology of affiliation: Implications for autism; 54. Neurobiology of depressive disorders; PART 10: EMOTION AND HEALTH; 55. Introduction: Emotion and Health; 56. Emotional expression and cancer progression; 57. The role of emotion on pathways to positive health; 58. Bottom-Up: Implications for neurobehavioral models of anxiety and autonomic regulation; 59. Stress and affect: Applicability of the concepts of allostasis and allostatic load